Avatar 2

(‘Avatar 2’ doesn’t come out for two more years.)

Like any franchise, the Avatar sequels will also depend primarily on audience response.

Filming in motion-capture in a big pool of water is more complicated than you may think. James Cameron describes the crazy process for the ‘Avatar’ sequels.

Kate Winslet and James Cameron are back together again after twenty years: Winslet has officially joined Cameron’s Avatar sequels, which began production last week in California.

The new actors joining James Cameron’s epic alien franchise have been revealed, including several new Na’vi and a teenager born on Pandora.

James Cameron has finally started production on his four massive CGI-laden 3D blockbusters with a budget of $1 billion.

Josh Brolin is the type of guy who’s not easily persuaded. If you invite him to brunch and he doesn’t want to go, just drop it. If you offer him a Coke when he says he’s not thirsty, just walk away, the man isn’t thirsty! And if you want him to star in your sequel about blue aliens and he turns you down, rest your case. You’re not going to change his mind, even if you’re James Cameron.

Wait, didn’t his character die at the end of the first ‘Avatar’? What gives?

The next of James Cameron’s Avatar sequels are officially off and rolling, with visual effects production in full swing today at the Oscar-winning Weta Digital in New Zealand. Cameron changed the game for movies that heavily feature visual effects and performance capture, paving the way for films like Luc Besson’s Valerian and the new Planet of the Apes trilogy. Funny enough, Weta is getting an assist this time around from motion capture tech used in War for the Planet of the Apes.

I like Avatar. Quite a bit, actually. On occasion, I have been known to defend the film, at length, on this very website. I would drop everything to hang out at Disney’s Pandora theme park if I could. (Stupid job, stupid beloved child.) But even I struggle to justify four Avatar sequels, which is supposedly the number of new films in James Cameron’s epic sci-fi series that will be coming in the years ahead.